1014 MB. 1. A. BOBBADAILE Ol!( CEUSTACEANS [DeC. 13, 



Geaus Metabet.eus, nov. 



26. Metabet^us mintjtus (Wliitelegge), 1897. 



Bctceus minutus, Whitelegge, Funafuti Atoll, Crust, p. 142, 

 pi. vii. fig. 4 «, b (lS97j. 



M. Coaticre's researches [Bull. Mus. Paris, ii. p. 380 (1896)] 

 necessitate, I think, the establishment o£ a new genus for this 

 species. The following are the cnaracters which together differ- 

 entiate this proposed genus from those already diagnosed : — 



(1) Eyes not covered in front by the carapace. 



(2) Carapace with short, flat, triangular rostrum and minute 



ocular teeth. 



(3) Cornea latei-al, eyestalks very broad and armed each with a 



spine above. 



(4) Outer fiagellum of the first antenna bifid. 



(5) Palp of mandible two-jointed. 



(6) Branchial formula the same as that given by Bate for 



(7) First pair of legs simple, equal, with movable fingers as in 



Betceus. 

 The genus is allied to Jousseaumea, but is separated from it by 

 the shape of the legs of the first pair, and by the presence of an 

 arthrobranch on the first maxilliped. Prom Alpheopsis it is 

 sundered by the presence of the arthrobranch, the spiues on the 

 eyestalks, aud, seemingly, by the minute size of the ocular spines 

 on the carapace- 

 Numerous specimens from Funafuti. 



Tribe SCYLLAEIDBA. 



Family S c x l l a e, i n iE. 

 Grenus Paeibacus Dana, 1852, 



27. Pabibacus antaecticus (Rumph.). 



Ihacus antarcticus (liumph.), H. M.-Edwards, H. N. Crust, ii. 

 p. 287 (1837). 



Paribacus antarcticus, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exped., Crust, i. p. 517, 

 pi. xxxvi. fig. 6 (1852). 



Two males from Eotuma. 



Family P a n n u b i n ^. 

 Genus Panulirus Gray. 



28. P^iJfUi/iEus PENICILLATUS (Olivier), 1811. 



Astacus penicillatus, Olivier, Encycl. Meth, vi. p. 343 (1811). 



Palinurus jyenicillatus, H. M.-Edvv. H. N. Crust, ii. p. 299 

 (1837). 



Pamdims penicillatus, Stimpson, Proc. Ac, N. Sci. Philad. 1860, 

 p, 92 ; Bate, ' Challenger ' Macrura, p. 52, pi. xh. fig. 2 (1888). 



Scnex penicillatus, Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. vi. Syst. p. 28. 



One female with eggs from Eotuma. 



